Chapter 8: Who Will Be the Lifelong Partner? Part 3
“Haaa~~~ Juncheng, aren’t you coming over here?”
Since I figured the seating would be limited, if I only cooked one pot, everyone would surely be crowding together.
So, the clever me made two pots separately. After cooking, I set up another small square table by Yi’s side. This way, we wouldn’t have to return to the crowded, warm kotatsu where everyone was packed together.
It would be suffocatingly hot to eat hot pot crammed together like that.
“Then I’ll go over there too, is that okay, Youyou?”
“Tsk, beaten to it… It’s your fault for getting in the way, Class Monitor. Since there’s an empty seat, go to the side!”
“Uwaaa~ Are you really this disgusted with me! Well~ it’s fine~ As long as there’s food, that’s good~ Hehe…
When there’s food, I can’t be bothered to act cute anymore… You’re quite the realist too, aren’t you.”
Then, because two seats became available, Li Nai was begrudgingly pushed to the other side by Lan. As for Lily, although she glanced enviously in this direction, she still obediently sat in the spot originally occupied by Lianbing and Youyou.
Since it was a warm kotatsu, we decided to have a Japanese-style hot pot. Afterwards, we could even use the broth to make porridge.
Originally, I thought that by winning over Lou Yi with bento boxes before, she might be interested in the dishes I made. But when I called her, she didn’t respond for a long time. So, I waved my fingers in front of her and called her again.
Then Yi reacted. First, she looked around, then pointed at herself and tilted her head.
“Yes, you don’t need to look anywhere else, I’m calling you.”
…
“Close and familiar people call each other directly by their names. Just like everyone else calls me Juncheng, I call you by your name too. Lou is your surname, and Yi is your given name. See, when I call Ling, I also omit her surname, right?”
…Lou… …close and familiar…
Lou Yi, Yi, she showed a thoughtful expression, then picked up her chopsticks and started eating the hot pot.
Her expression brightened for a moment. It seemed to suit her appetite quite well.
Just as I was about to ask her what she thought, Lan’s slightly complaining voice came from the other table.
“But when Juncheng calls me, you call me… Lan is my surname?”
“Didn’t Juncheng just say it? Only close and familiar people call each other by name. In other words, you don’t belong to the group of close and familiar people?”
“I think this is a sign of your special position in Juncheng’s heart. On the other hand, a certain young lady’s presence has been growing recently.”
Sparkling.
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Here we go again, here we go again!
These two really never tire of bickering.
“There’s no special reason, it’s just that I’m used to calling you that… How should I put it, Lan, you give me a ‘Lan’ feeling.
And it’s also to distinguish you from Zihua.”
“I think it would be better to change how you address me. After all, my aunt’s surname is also Lan. When I take you to meet her, if you blurt out ‘Lan’ and my aunt turns around, wouldn’t that be awkward?”
“Ah, so that’s how it is…. Wait, is this a pre-arranged meeting with parents?”
“Hehe, I’ve wanted to take you to meet my aunt for a long time~ I’m sure Juncheng, you’ll like her~”
Li Nai suddenly interjected.
“Hmm, like her, or like *her*?”
“Shut up and eat properly, you brat!”
“Ah, hot, hot, hot! Stuffing tofu directly into my mouth is too much!”
You should…
“Well, I’ll try to change it… Hmm, but I might not be able to change it. After all, habits are hard to break. Just like when I changed from calling you Teacher to Lily, it took a long time to adapt, right, Teacher?”
…!”
…Lily?” “Ah, yes.”
…Teacher?”
“~~”
She let out a very… uh, sound that seemed to herald the arrival of spring.
Because that voice was so seductive and bone-chilling, it sounded terrible, making the atmosphere awkward.
Lily also realized that she had made a very embarrassing sound and buried her head.
Perhaps the only ones present who didn’t understand what was happening were Youyou and Yi, who were still children.
…Me?
“No, I don’t think that was calling…”
“No way, is the old problem still there…?”
Lily knew her reaction was strange and explained in a low voice.
This is less of a habit and more of a physiological reaction.
Then Li Nai, the instigator, wouldn’t miss this opportunity. She lifted a corner of the kotatsu, covered her mouth, and giggled as she looked at me and said:
“Hehe, it’s not too late yet. Juncheng, aren’t you coming over to our side? I permit you to stick your head under the kotatsu! No matter what you do in there, we’ll turn a blind eye.”
“Hey, hey, there are still children here. You should watch your timing when you speak.”
“Stick my head in for what?”
“That’s to lick sisters! —Gulp!”
I stuffed another piece of potato into Li Nai’s mouth.
Don’t instill strange terms into children, you idiot! Look, Youyou is asking again! How am I supposed to answer!
“Ahaha, my silly sister is just talking nonsense… Sip! What a joke, are you going to smell our feet? Or give you jojo?”
I said this in a forceful tone, shifting from highly suggestive to mildly suggestive, steering the conversation away.
Then Li Nai could still continue.
“Yeah, you can also admire four pairs of beautiful legs and feet~ What do you say, tempted?”
“Can you please be more reserved…”
“Tch, you’re not a virgin anymore, so why pretend to be pure?”
Am I pretending?!
It’s you who has no integrity!
“Sister, what is a virgin?”
“Juncheng, you explain.”
“Uh, well… a virgin is that, yes, it’s someone who endures loneliness with the resolve to become a magician!”
“Ahahaha! Calling him a solitary person! Describing a virgin as so pure! Hahaha! I’m dying of laughter!”
“I can’t anymore, this person is hopeless. Saint, quick, use your ability to purify her.” “Ah?”
Saint, who hadn’t expected the conversation to involve her, stopped peeling the shrimp and said with difficulty:
“Purify? But… I’ve already used it before…”
“Ah? But Lan is back to normal?”
She seems completely like the usual Lan.
I thought Saint had lifted the purification early, which is why Lan returned to normal. But it wasn’t?
Then what’s going on? Does Lan have a way to undo the purification?
Saint glanced at Lan beside her and cautiously said, Light Novel SF
“Um, it’s actually still in effect.” “Ah?”
“Hehehe, it’s indeed still in effect. My sense of shame is still warning me not to do anything unladylike.”
Lan’s face flushed, and with a crazed smile, she said sinisterly:
“Hehehehe, how can a girl’s pure shame stop my longing for Juncheng? During class, I finished updating Juncheng’s daily records from volume 1212 to 1314, and then I got excited. Thinking that I could watch Juncheng from such close proximity from now on, I couldn’t help but run to the rooftop. I smelled Juncheng’s unwashed clothes. Although I was shy, I became even more excited, and I couldn’t help but secretly pleasure myself with Juncheng’s chopsticks…”
“Stop! Enough! Having Li Nai, the little pervert, is enough. We don’t need another big pervert!”
This means that although she was purified, she only took one day to overcome her sense of shame, and she could even use this rare sense of shame and integrity as a condiment for self-pleasure?
What kind of monster are you! If this were another world, you would have been captured as an unclean witch long ago!
This Lan is too terrifying! Her stalking level is probably already ‘god-tier’!
Compared to Lan, Li Nai’s level is truly child’s play compared to hers…
Then Youyou, ever the curious child, asked again.
“Hand冲?”
Lianbing narrowed her eyes and looked at me coldly.
“Please don’t ask…”
Li Nai and Lan have perfect teamwork. I really can’t do anything about it…
We’re just having a meal, how many words that will hinder Youyou’s growth can you people bring up…
I told you, health and P.E. are too early to learn!
After a late-night snack, my stamina had not recovered at all. After the rooms were assigned, a exhausted me walked into the room.
Li Nai said to me.
“So, Juncheng, you’ve decided to go up?”
“Really? Are you sure?”
“Absolutely, definitely, and positively.”
“…Alright then, you go up.”
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“Too much talk, you just sleep obediently.”
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I grumbled and then slowly climbed onto Li Nai’s….
upper bunk.
“That’s strange, you specifically came to sleep on my upper bunk.”
“Because a real man does what he says….. Hmm.”
I’m sorry, everyone. I’ve disappointed you.
I really don’t have the energy to mess around today.
But in a sense, I’m sleeping above Li Nai, aren’t I? It also fulfills the condition, right?
“But seriously, Juncheng, you can freely enter any other girl’s room, have a comfortable sweat, and then sleep in the arms of a beautiful girl. Why do you have to come to my place to sleep on the upper bunk?”
“Sleeping on the upper bunk is more… I mean, even if I didn’t come here to sleep, I wouldn’t casually act like an emperor doting on his concubines. It would just lead to trouble in the end.”
“I’m not joking this time. You all tacitly agreed to this. The ceasefire agreement only stipulates that we can’t make a move on you indoors, but there are no restrictions on who you want to be with. So, if you find a girl you like and sleep with her, no one will interfere, and no one will say anything.”
“Ho, you guys even have rules like that?”
“Yes, in the end, this is your harem.”
“My harem…”
I didn’t continue the conversation.
In the warmth of the duvet, I thought about the word ‘harem’ and gradually fell asleep.
Time flows by unconsciously.
We usher in the last day of the year, December 31st.
Thanks to Li Nai’s ceasefire agreement, nothing else happened during this period.
And Eden, after losing a general last time, didn’t bother us again. Of course, this is also thanks to Lan’s all-encompassing intelligence.
The New Year’s Day holiday starts tomorrow, and it’s also the day I promised Li Nai.
At this time, I hadn’t thought about what would happen next.
As the year ends, a new major event begins.
